Smithereens Press Chapbooks 'Three Red Things' by Christine Murray | Page 14

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Euterpe, muse of lyric poetry I can hear your double-flute ' s song
those reeds tremble even here as An Doilin emblazes her corals from
red, reddish to pink to salmon pink to warm peach and
eventually it stagnates to a sense of middling yellow a sickly kind of yellow to brownish cream
The maerl is never bone white
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